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Anchor Text idea

We all know that anchor text is very important when linking to your site...
I have a question here...

Wordpress automatically converts our name as anchor text when we post comments. Is it a good idea to put "SEO BLOG" instead of "John Doe" in name field when posting a comment so that SEO BLOG would be an anchor text when comment is posted?

Great idea to link to anchor text for blog comment, but just only for "follow" blogs. It will be fair for both to give your valued times to comment them and they get blog updated when there are comments.

If you reviewed blog comments by yourself, you will be able to pick any comment is useful and helpful to your blog. No need to use no-follow to your page. Though they will use anchor text link to their website, but you can choose them.

There are some people collect only"follow" blog to post their comments. I think it is good for them to share their valued experiences and get helpful backlinks to their websites. Many people will devote their times (= money) to add comments and share experiences to other people more and more.

I have a political blog and post comments on a number of other, much more popular political blogs. The SEO benefit is nil, as mentioned, because most blogs use the "nofollow" attribute. Also, I've found that I get very little traffic from blog comment posts.

For example, on a popular blog with tens-of-thousands of daily visitors, if I post a comment with my website URL I might only get two or three visitors. That's hardly worth the effort of writing the comment. But I don't make comments soley for the SEO or traffic benefits, so that doesn't deter me.

Today, I manually submitted my site to 56 seo-friendly directories with clean reciprocal link... My plan is to do at least 10 submissions per day and to submit my site to all available free directories as along as I have time...(10 to 20 submissions daily). What do you think will be the result after 2 to 3 months? Will I get even PR1?

So it's useless to post comments on blogs with no-follow link right? How to check the site if it set to noffolow or not?

Thanks

Let's say instead that it's useless to post a comment on a blog only for the purpose of getting a link.

Commenting is a way of organically improving your traffic. You say something interesting and relevant. Someone reads it and clicks your link to see if you have anything else interesting to say. Often, the blog owner will click his/her comment links if for no other reason than courtesy.

If you're commenting only to gain backlinks, IMO that's spam. I don't use the no follow but I do moderate all of my comments. When I find spam, I hit the delete.

Linda Jenkinson"Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean." ~Unknown

The links are so worthless anyway that I don't consider being used. Especially when their comment helps the conversation in my blog. In the end I feel I get more out of the whole thing.

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

Today, I manually submitted my site to 56 seo-friendly directories with clean reciprocal link... My plan is to do at least 10 submissions per day and to submit my site to all available free directories as along as I have time...(10 to 20 submissions daily). What do you think will be the result after 2 to 3 months? Will I get even PR1?

Can't say. It depends on lots of factors. You probably will get some PR but how much is a broad guess at best.

Also bear in mind that some blogs require you to use YOUR name, not the name of your blog, Web site, employer, business, etc... if the owner finds that you're circumventing that rule, you'll probably be blocked.